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Dropbox Basic: Quick Solutions to Common Issues
Your Dropbox Basic account makes it easy to organise files, manage folder and keep your digital life running smoothly. You’ve probably heard us mention it once or twice …and for good reason. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to get the most from Dropbox Basic and share simple solutions to some of the most common…
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Dropbox crashes my PC since the last update, on Windows 11 it reboots the machine immediately
Hello, Today on may 29, while trying to move files from windows 11 desktop to dropbox, dropbox crashed my PC so quickly there wasn't even a BSOD. It happened 3x in a row, after which I used task manager to discern the culprit: Dropbox. Every time it booted and made connection the PC would instantly crash within 30 seconds…
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The "dropbox running" Linux command returns wrong exit code
The CLI command "dropbox running" returns exit code 1 when Dropbox is running and exit code 0 when it is not running. user@host:~$ ps aux | grep dropbox$ user 13953 6.9 2.8 7108024 442272 ? Ssl 07:13 1:24 /home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-252.4.3485/dropbox user@host:~$ dropbox running user@host:~$ echo $? 1…
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Dropbox is using 605 GB of disc space in (user)/Library/Cloud Storage/Dropbox
My M2 MacBk Air, running Sequoia 15.7.7 had been running around 700 GB disc usage on its 1 TB HD. Recently is suddenly started giving me "Disc almost full" warnings. It's at 895 GB of 995 available and my "System Data" is a colossal 675 GB! (should be around 50 GB normally). After some hard searching, I found at:…
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Quick Actions Error: "WebGL not supported on your browser" (v246.4.3513 onwards)
Hello, I had been using the quick actions on screenshots seamlessly for months. But since the latest update, it shows an error saying "WebGL not supported on your browser". I know my GPU is old, (nVidia GE Force GT 730), but WebGL works perfectly fine for all other apps, and had been working just fine for Dropbox…
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How do I find a moved directory?
how do i FIND a MOVED directory??. tried searching in Dropbox, but the activity log is useless as i access hundreds of files each day, so it's like looking in a haystack
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Some online-only files have 0 bytes and no content on the desktop app and website.
I recently discovered that many, if not most, files in one particular folder are showing a file size of zero bytes, and opening them shows no content. It seems quite random as to which files are affected. The date created seems to make no difference. Hundreds of files are affected. It makes no difference whether I access…
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Stable Build 254.4.2518
Thanks for using Dropbox! The desktop client is regularly updated with many improvements and fixes including the following: Fixed in this update: Improves guidance for selected legacy tray users as Dropbox updates the tray experience. Fixed an issue where some team users could get stuck in a paused state after a sync…
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Version history is a right-click option for online-only files but not for offline ones on Mac
Files that aren't synced to my computer, if I right click on it, gives me the 'version history' option. Files that are synced don't give that option. on Mac
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Dropbox External Drive Backup - Changing Computers
I’ve just found out when you change Laptop / Desktop you can’t continue to use the same external hard drive with Dropbox Backup. This is absolute madness. If you want to continue to use that hard drive with Dropbox Backup you have to re upload the full HD. I have 2TB used on a 4TB external SSD and I’ve just changed to a…